Posted on: November 7, 2019 by Alexander Herman
As those who have followed our courses (especially our IP Diploma) will know, a big fanfare is often made about the possibilities of the ‘quotation’ exception introduced into UK copyright law five years ago. For institutions that are often users of copyright-protected material, like museums, galleries, archives and libraries, the new exception came with a […]
Posted on: October 5, 2015 by Alexander Herman
It was announced last week that two Belgian creators had reached a settlement in a copyright dispute highlighting the role (and limits) of copyright exceptions. One was a photographer, Katrijn Van Giel, who had taken a photograph of Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker that appeared in De Standard newspaper in 2010. It was a fairly unique shot: creatively cropped […]
Posted on: July 8, 2015 by Alexander Herman
As the European Parliament is set to vote tomorrow on the amended Report dealing with the harmonisation of ‘Freedom of Panorama’ across Europe, the opposition to the Report has taken off. This can be seen in the nearly 500,000 digital signatures acquired in the last week alone protesting the current provisions of the Report: notably the […]
Posted on: December 4, 2014 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
The five-day Diploma in Law and Collections Management course (DipLCM) will again run in London from Monday 12 January to Friday 16 January 2015. This course is tailored to museum personnel who want to learn more about the legal issues that arise in museum management on a daily basis. The programme requires no pre-existing knowledge of law. The key […]
Posted on: September 29, 2014 by Alexander Herman
This is a big week for copyright exceptions in UK law. Wednesday will see enter into force no less than three exceptions making permissible use of copyright material that otherwise would be considered infringement. These will effectively expand the ways in which users of copyright material can make use of that material. The first of these […]